Friday, August 29, 2008

I thought something looked awfully familiar about the fetish footwear on Myer's runway on Wednesday night. And look, yes I know, every man and his dog has been doing some sort of gladiator shoe or boot of late. It's definitely a trend with, er, legs. One that's been running in fact for several years now.

But something really resonated with me vis-a-vis that specific gladiator shoe boot which appeared in several early sections of the show. Including the opener, Jennifer Hawkins' pretty new Cozi swimwear collection:

As for the Sachi shoe, you can just see the details in Charlie Brewer's Myer runway pic above. However I managed to find a close-up of what I believe could be the shoe in question on the blog of Oz shoe guru Imelda, who previewed Sachi's SS0809 collection:

I think that's so stupid. There are so many girls right now on the streets wearing the gladiator or scaled ankle boots obviously because of Givenchy and Balenciaga. Some women can pull it off and do it well whilst others - it's killing their legs!! Some of them so much struggle it's not embarrassing but just hurtful to see it.